If it was a pump action one it was probably a Daisy 25. I guarantee that would hurt. When I was a kid my best friend had one and I had a lesser Daisy.

We used to have air rifle wars in which we would basically play cowboys and Indians with our air rifles. I was at a severe disadvantage and remember even at 25 yards or so, that model 25 would really hurt.

One thing that we were fairly smart about is we would wear our swim goggles to protect our eyes.

My brother and I thought we were great white hunters when we got our first Daisy pump BB guns.

One afternoon we brought in a Cottontail Rabbit we killed with them. A BB in the right spot can be deadly.

Then we graduated to C02 powered 22. cal. pellet guns. Those were effective on small game. Rabbits, birds, squirrels.

I used my father's break-over 1.77 cal. pellet rifle this year to take care a bunch of birds that were destroying his grape crop. Found that a direct hit on the side of the bird only knocked the feathers out. But if you shot for the head, almost any shot was fatal.

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posted on 11/22/2011 6:14:43 PM PST
by Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)

When I was growing up we had some neighbors, country neighbors who lived about a mile away. They had five red headed boys who were wild as could be. I enjoyed playing with them but never would have gone hunting with one of them.

I was not too surprised when one day I heard one of them had shot his brother in the eye with a BB gun. He lost around 60% of his vision in that eye.

A woman would need to be very knowledgeable about who she rents a room to in her home. It would, most likely, not be wise to rent one to almost any man who she didn't know exceptionally well or not rent to a man at all, especially when she has a child/children.

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posted on 11/22/2011 6:30:23 PM PST
by Bellflower
(Judas Iscariot, first democrat, robber, held the money bag, claimed to care for poor: John 12:4-6)

Actually, we’re pretty good on the self-defense issue here. DA’s had better have a solid case, or they wind up paying.

Based on my admittedly somewhat limited training (40-hour Use of Lethal Force course), I’d venture that given the apparently imminent threat of (at least) grievous bodily harm and disparity of force (among other factors), the kid was righteous - given the limited information presented.

Ah, I remember using daisy pellet rifles during my days in JROTC. It could even punch through skin, and could be lethal enough if it could penetrate slightly into the neck. There are also elctric automatic air guns that are powerful, painful even not lethal. BB guns these days are much more powerful than toy guns we have seen in the past.

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